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From: grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter)
Subject: Re: does /dev/hd0 really ignore the partition table ?
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.041837.29054@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 04:18:37 GMT
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grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes:
>>>>My memory of Minix is that /dev/hd0 treats the ENTIRE disk as a Minix
>>>>partition, regardless of the partition table.
>>> 
>>>Is this true ? I haven't MINIX yet, but when I get it I plan on having two
>>>partitions; one for DOS and one for MINIX. If I have to worry about
>>>trashing the DOS partition though...

A kind person informed me that :

:/dev/hd0 refers to the raw drive (the whole thing).
:If you want to access partitions, use hd1, hd2, hd3, etc.
:I have DOS in hd1, minix on hd2 and Minix boot on hd3.

	fred